This executive role combines financial leadership, enterprise financial governance, and strategic partnership to guide the organization through its next phase of growth and development. The Vice President of Finance will help make informed decisions, allocate capital effectively, manage financial risk, and achieve long-term objectives. This position requires a strong understanding of how the business operates and how operational performance drives financial results.
Responsibilities
Serve as the executive owner of the organization
Provide the President, Executive Team, and Board with timely financial reporting, analysis, forecasts, risk assessments, and recommendations
Lead the annual financial planning process and ensure alignment between strategic priorities, departmental operating plans, budgets, and capital requirements
Establish financial expectations and accountability across departments and support leaders in understanding the financial impact of operational decisions
Identify and escalate material financial, liquidity, compliance, and business performance risks
Ensure appropriate financial policies, internal controls, approval authorities, and reporting standards are established, maintained, and consistently followed
Provide financial leadership for major investments, capital expenditures, financing arrangements, and strategic business decisions
Lead all accounting, financial reporting, and finance department activities
Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting
Maintain effective financial controls, compliance, and reporting processes
Oversee audit preparation, year-end requirements, and external reporting requirements
Own and continuously improve financial systems, processes, financial data integrity, reporting structures, and decision-support capabilities
Provide clear, accurate, and actionable financial information to the President, Executive Team, Board, and departmental leaders, as appropriate
Lead the annual budgeting process in partnership with departmental leaders
Develop and maintain monthly and quarterly forecasts and cash flow forecasts
Conduct budget-to-actual and variance analysis and ensure material variances are understood, explained, and addressed
Develop financial models to support business decisions
Lead capital investment planning, evaluation, and financial requirements planning
Support long-term financial planning and strategic initiatives
Improve forecasting accuracy and financial visibility across the organization
Develop and monitor meaningful financial and operational KPIs
Analyze labor, inventory, crop yields, production performance, storage utilization, pricing, sales, and customer profitability
Millions of jobs, with real people getting hired every day
200,000+
New jobs added daily
7,000,000+
Verified job listings
1,000,000+
Tailored applications submitted
Identify trends, risks, and opportunities affecting business performance
Help leadership understand the financial impact of operational decisions
Improve the organization
Provide analysis that drives profitability, efficiency, cash flow, and sustainable performance improvements
Manage banking and lender relationships
Maintain financing facilities and debt arrangements
Monitor liquidity, working capital, debt levels, covenant requirements, and borrowing capacity
Prepare financial information and forecasts required by financing partners
Lead financial analysis supporting capital allocation and financing decisions
Work closely with operational leaders across the business
Develop a strong understanding of the operational drivers that influence financial results
Spend time in production, storage, retail, and operating environments to gain firsthand knowledge of the business
Provide practical analysis and recommendations that support improved performance
Challenge assumptions when facts and data support a different conclusion
Partner with department leaders to establish budgets, forecasts, financial requirements, and accountability for financial performance
Provide executive oversight of the Retail Team and ensure retail activities align with organizational financial and operational objectives
Monitor retail financial performance, margins, inventory, labor, pricing, and other relevant performance measures
Ensure appropriate financial controls, reporting, and accountability are maintained within retail operations
Work with retail leadership to identify opportunities to improve profitability, efficiency, customer value, and overall performance
Lead and develop the accounting and finance team and provide executive oversight to teams within the role
Establish clear expectations, accountability, performance standards, and succession/development priorities
Develop future leaders within the department
Promote teamwork, ownership, and continuous improvement
Build strong working relationships throughout the organization
Serve as a trusted member of the senior leadership team and advisor to the President
Own the financial governance framework and recommend financial policies, controls, approval authorities, and reporting standards for executive or Board approval, where required
Oversee financial reporting, budget governance, cash management, banking relationships, and financial control processes within approved authority levels
Review and challenge departmental budgets, forecasts, capital requests, and material financial assumptions
Recommend capital allocation, financing, investment, and risk mitigation actions to the President and Board, as appropriate
Escalate material financial, compliance, liquidity, control, or performance concerns to the President and Board, as required
Requirements
CPA designation required
Bachelor
MBA considered an asset
10+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant senior financial leadership responsibility
Strong experience in financial reporting; budgeting and forecasting; FP&A; cash flow and working capital management; banking and lender relationships; financial controls and compliance; and capital planning and investment analysis
Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams and partnering with senior operational leaders
Nice to have:
Experience in agriculture, food processing, manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, or another operationally intensive industry is strongly preferred
Important Details
New vacancy
About the Company
Schuyler Farms is a mid-to-large-scale, privately owned agricultural organization located in Norfolk County, Ontario. Its integrated orchard-to-customer supply chain operations span approximately 3,900 acres of agricultural production, including 1,900 acres of apples, cherries, and pears, and 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans. The company has approximately 100 full-time employees, with a workforce that grows to approximately 400 seasonal employees during peak season. The scale and diversity of its operations create a dynamic and operationally complex business environment encompassing agricultural production, storage, distribution, retail, seasonal workforce operations, and supporting corporate functions.
